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This RC release includes about 100 bug fixes and 200 new features and enhancements. It is a result of five months of intensive development since the prior Beta release. During this period, we have received a lot of help from the Yii community users. We hereby thank everyone who has contributed to Yii and made this release possible. You are the best!

johnsnails (1715452) writes "THE fiery founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, who drew international condemnation for outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and US soldiers, on America's tolerance for gay people, has died. He was 84."Link to Original Source

THE American chief executive of a bitcoin exchange has been found dead at her home in Singapore.

Autumn Radtke, 28, was found dead in her apartment on February 28 and investigators are awaiting toxicology tests to confirm that her death was a suicide.

Radtke formerly worked with Apple and other Silicon Valley tech firms on developing digital payment systems before taking up the position with First Meta, an exchange for the digital currency bitcoin."Link to Original Source

johnsnails (1715452) writes "KEVIN Rudd has conceded defeat to Tony Abbott in the election and said he will not recontest the Labor leadership. Mr Rudd called on the nation to unite behind Mr Abbott as prime minister. “As Prime Minister of Australia I wish him well now in the high office of Australian prime minister.” “Tonight is the time to unite as the great Australian nation. Because whatever our politics may be we are all first and foremost Australian."Link to Original Source

johnsnails (1715452) writes "THE smartest person in Britain isn't an Oxbridge professor or BBC boffin, it's an 11-year-old girl with huge aspirations.
Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell scored the maximum of 162 on a Mensa IQ test in July, ranking her smarter than Einstein and Stephen Hawking, the Wall St Journal reports."Link to Original Source

johnsnails (1715452) writes "The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0. This release includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.
The key features of PHP 5.5.0 include:

Added generators and coroutines.

Added "finally" keyword.

Added simplified password hashing API.

Added support for constant array/string dereferencing.

Added Class Name Resolution As Scalar Via "class" Keyword

Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions

Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach

Added support for list in foreach

Added Zend Opcache extension and enable building it by default.

The GD library has been upgraded to version 2.1 adding new functions and improve existing functionality.

johnsnails (1715452) writes "RESEARCHERS have managed to easily hack the building management system of Google's Sydney headquarters.

The researchers from security firm Cylance were able to obtain the password for the control system for the waterfront Pyrmont office, where it could access the system that controls alarms and other building services."Link to Original Source

johnsnails (1715452) writes "We are very pleased to announce that Yii 2 is now available for public preview at GitHub. This is a major milestone during the Yii 2 development which was started more than two years ago and has since undergone complete rewrite.

Note that Yii 2 is still under heavy development. We may introduce significant changes without prior notices. So please do not use it for production.

johnsnails (1715452) writes "THE US ambassador to Australia, who lambasted Australians for pirating popular fantasy TV series Game of Thrones, has explained why he does not have "anything better to do" than to fight this issue."Link to Original Source

johnsnails (1715452) writes "Some of the biggest news sites in the world disappeared today when Facebook took over the internet with a redirection bug.

Visitors to sites such as The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, the Gawker network, NBC News and News.com.au were immediately transferred to a Facebook error page upon loading their intended site."Link to Original Source

johnsnails (1715452) writes "AROUND 60 students at Harvard University have been suspended and others disciplined in a mass cheating scandal at the elite college, the campus newspaper reports.

The Harvard Crimson quoted an email from Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael Smith that said more than half of the cases heard by administrators in the scandal, which erupted last year, had resulted in suspension orders."Link to Original Source

johnsnails (1715452) writes "My friend wrote this poem for his new girlfriend. The whole poem is full of programming and computer references. I wanted to ask the/. community what they thought of the references and any mistakes he has made (or kudos where due). He will be reading your replies!

--My love for you is dynamic and compiled on the run. Never will acompile time bug stop us even trying. Just in time is the way wecompile.

Our interface is love, polymorphic in every way, always constrained byIlove (I love, the interface name for love by convection adding an "I"turns it into "I love" lol)

I'll catch your exceptions and never let them bubble away. Will you bethe code the completes my abstract heart?

Like garbage collection I will take out the trash for you. I'll manageour memories and create more than enough, never losing even one. Neverwill there be a pointer to a memory of ours that can't be found.

I walked our stack and couldn't find a trace of any leak, my love foryou is on the heap, it's not going away anytime soon.

I tried redefining our love but it has already been declared, I love you

They said I was object orientated, your more than an object, your myscript to happiness

I tired reading ur past but got an out of bounds, I incremented thepointer and saw your future, I'll always be here with you

Love was undefined so I just set it to you and I

We break and point to look at the locals, and see what's in ourhearts, their the same reference destined to be linked togetherforever.

I did and extern on the entry to my heart so you can always find it

My manifest has you all over it, there's no denying your in my heartthrough and through

I overrode our destructor and will never release our memories, ourlove will never be lost

When we were constructed I started an infinite loop, no one else hascontrol, our love will never end

I'm asynchronous, i'll call you back all the time

When that event hit us from a different thread, we just synchronisedour hearts and kept on loving

Tell me my bugs and I'll comment them out for you

The message loop is full of one thing, you

Ajax called to say json had a message. It was I love you

I love you like jquery loves the dom.I love you like knockout loves bindingI love you like and an event loves a handlerI love you like html loves cssI love you like JavaScript loves chromeI love you more than I love html5Your the one for me

I'll listen to your heart beat so our connection will never dropout.I'll love you with nbn speeds

My password is our first kiss, I'll never change it, and no one canever steal it.

I went to ping you but had to stop at every hop, it was worth it toknow you were there all along

I looked up your name and found it was non-authorative, that'ssomething I can fix but I'll have to change a part of your name andmove you to my place

We don't need a controller to tell us our view is full of model love

I did a dig and found your name, then i did an arp and found youraddress, the next protocol is all physical.

You have a static arp entry in my heart, you can change ur number, youcan change you name, I'll always find you and never loose you

You can pull the plug I've auto saved our love

I hope you don't mind, I self signed our love, other people may nottrust it, but we both know who we are

If you were optimised nothing would be removed

Like a stack overflow to an infinite recursion I couldn't escapethinking about u"